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White House Responds to Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden
Today, the White House released a response to a petition to pardon Edward Snowden. The original petition, filed on June 9th, 2013, has received 167,954 signatures and reads: Edward Snowden is a nationa... -
A Public Split: Listening to the Conversation at Aspen
What the Aspen Security Summit brought this year were strong words by former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and former Director of the National Counterintelligence Center Michael Leiter ... -
Civil Liability for End-to-End Encryption: Threat or Fantasy? Part I
Last week, one of us noted Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s question to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates asking whether the manufacturers of encrypted devices might be liable civilly if FBI Director James... -
Marshall Erwin on the FBI's "Going Slowly"
Over at Just Security, Marshall Erwin has an excellent article entitled, "The FBI’s Problem Isn’t 'Going Dark.' Its Problem is Going Slowly." I'm not sure how much of Erwin's argument I agree with—defini... -
Surveillance Diplomacy
Now that some of the dust has settled in the wake of the revelations about NSA and GCHQ surveillance of foreign leaders, it is a good time for the United States to engage in a bit of surveillance diploma... -
Thoughts on Encryption and Going Dark: Counterpart
In his thoughtful piece on arguments regarding the broad use of encryption to secure communications and devices, not surprisingly Ben puts forth some ideas with which I disagree. Hence, to his part II, I... -
Conor Friedersdorf Takes the Bait on Encryption
Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf responds to my piece on encryption, defending on principled grounds the use of strong end-to-end encryption. In my view, he gets the entire matter wrong: wrong on... -
Privacy Wars ....
For those interested in seeing how the privacy/encryption debate looks from the hacker/security research side, consider this report: Privacy talk at DEF CON canceled under questionable circumstances: -
Thoughts on Encryption and Going Dark, Part II: The Debate on the Merits
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Senate Hearings on "Going Dark"
Both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold hearings today on strong encrpytion, privacy, and the threat of "Going Dark." The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing ... -
Testing Encryption Insecurity: A Modest Proposal
Co-blogger Susan Landau has yet another thoughtful post on the insecurity of back door encryption requirements -- what she calls mandating insecurity. She calls it magical thinking, which is perhaps a ... -
Encryption, Biometrics, and the Status Quo Ante
As the recent indirect debate between FBI Director James Comey and co-blogger Susan Landau makes clear, the underlying premises of the encryption issue are highly contested. The Senate will continue the...
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